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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
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